Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (27 January 1775-20 August 1854) was a German philosopher and a major proponent of German idealism. His views held an ever-changing nature, leading to them largely being ignored outside of Germany.

Biography
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling was born in Leonberg, Wurttemberg, Holy Roman Empire on 27 January 1775. He was educated at the University of Tubingen and Leipzig University during the 1790s, and Johann Gottlieb Fichte was his mentor during his early years, while Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was his university roommate, early friend, and later rival. Schelling became a leading figure in German idealism, and he fathered the Naturphilosophie movement between 1795 and 1797. Immanuel Kant's supporters saw this movement as speculative and overly metaphysical, and it was poorly understood by Anglophone countries in later years. His later work on mythology and revelation would go untranslated, and Hegel's mature works portrayed Schelling as a footnote in the development of idealism. He died in 1854 in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland.